Property Division Issues

For most divorcing couples, property division is one of the most important and high-stakes parts of the process. In Georgia, divorcing spouses must divide their marital assets equitably. Each party must get a fair share of the marital property, but the two of them are not required to divide them exactly 50-50. Of course, you …

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Typically, engagement and wedding rings aren’t among the assets that couples typically spend a lot of time battling over during divorce. Usually, gifts that a spouse receives individually (including those from their husband or wife) are considered separate property that they’re allowed to keep. If they no longer want to hang onto them, they may sell them, …

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Sometimes, a spouse may resort to a premeditated plan to deny marital assets to the other spouse. One of those ways is to hide assets. In such situations, the spouse may have been doing so for a long time out of greed, and then simply sped up the process when he or she decided to …

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For all practical purposes, your marriage is over – but you still have to get through the divorce. One of the biggest sticking points in most divorces is how to divide up the marital assets and debts. The more you know about how this process works in Georgia, the easier it will be to make …

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While the state sets out how you must divide property in a divorce, applying those rules to your situation is not always straightforward. As a married couple, you probably own more than you think. You likely have financial worth stored in many other forms, be it bank accounts, expensive furniture, investment portfolios or property. Accounting …

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